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Buescher goes overtime to win truck race in Iowa

James Buescher took control during a second green-white-checkered finish and held
on to win the NASCAR Truck Series race yesterday in Iowa City, Iowa.

It was the second win in four races for Buescher, the defending series champion.

Buescher grabbed the lead from the outside position and edged out pole-sitter
Ross Chastain for his sixth career victory.

Chastain, denied his first career win, was followed by
Ty Dillon,Johnny Sauter and
Darrell Wallace Jr.

Buescher’s final run capped a wild finish to the second Iowa race of the season. There were 12
lead changes, smashing the track record of seven.

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Sebastian Vettel withstood a tricky start from the pole position to win the
Italian Grand Prix in Monza and extend his championship lead over Ferrari driver
Fernando Alonso, who finished second.

Vettel locked his tires on the first turn as the Ferrari of
Felipe Massa pressured him from behind. But after that the German consolidated his
advantage to beat Alonso and Red Bull teammate
Mark Webber, who finished third.

With seven races remaining, it looks increasingly likely that Vettel will clinch a fourth
straight Formula One title — unless he has an alarming drop in form or Ferrari finds a way to get
faster.

It was Vettel’s third career win at Monza, sixth of the season and 32nd overall.

NHL

Son of owner Karmanos is fired by Hurricanes

The Carolina Hurricanes fired the son of team owner
Peter Karmanos Jr. four days before the start of training camp.

The team said that it had relieved
Jason Karmanos of his duties as executive vice president and assistant general
manager, but no reason was given in a two-paragraph news release announcing the move.

The younger Karmanos had been the team’s assistant GM for 15 years.

Golf

Svoboda wins Web.com event on first playoff hole

Andrew Svoboda beat
Will MacKenzie with a par on the first hole of a playoff at the Chiquita Classic
in Davidson, N.C., the second tournament in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series.

The third event in the series, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, will be played
Thursday through Sunday at OSU’s Scarlet Course.

Svoboda tapped in for par on the par-5 18th and won when MacKenzie — who eagled the hole in
regulation — missed a 5-footer. Svoboda shot a 2-under-par 70 to match MacKenzie at 12 under.
MacKenzie finished with a 67.

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Esteban Toledo beat
Kenny Perry with a birdie on the third extra hole to win the Champions Tour
Montreal Championship in Sainte-Julie, Quebec.

Toledo shot a 3-under 69 to match Perry at 5-under 211. Perry had a 70.

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Thomas Bjorn beat
Craig Lee with a birdie on the first playoff hole to win the European Masters
title in Crans-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland .

Bjorn sank his 12-foot putt on the par-4 18th after Lee’s birdie attempt from 15 feet slid left
of the hole. Both finished regulation at 20-under 264 after missing 20-footers on the foggy,
rain-swept hole.

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Nathan Smith won the deciding point in the United States’ 17-9 victory over
Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup in Southampton, N.Y., beating England’s
Nathan Kimsey 4 and 3 in the fifth singles match.

The United States, ahead 8-4 entering the final day of the biennial amateur event, split the
four morning foursomes matches and won seven of the 10 afternoon singles matches.

Sailing

Oracle Team USA gets first victory of America’s Cup

Oracle Team USA came flying out of the fog around mark 4 and stayed ahead of Emirates Team
Zealand in a heart-stopping sprint to the finish to win Race 4 of the America’s Cup by eight
seconds on San Francisco Bay.

It was the first victory of the regatta for Oracle, which still has a long way to go to keep the
oldest trophy in international sports. It needs to win 10 more races to retain the silver
trophy.

Team New Zealand won Race 3 earlier in the day, its third straight victory, and needs to win six
more to take the Auld Mug to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, which held it from 1995 to
2003.